The document discusses ways to maintain a healthy heart through diet and exercise. It recommends consuming whole grains, drinking 8 glasses of water per day, eating 3-5 servings of vegetables with every meal, and snacking on fruit. Regular exercise, avoiding processed foods high in sugar and preservatives, and keeping cholesterol and blood pressure levels balanced also support heart health. Maintaining a healthy heart helps the entire body function well.

1. The Greatest Wealth Is Health.
Vol 2, 18 August 2011
Contributed by : ZALINA BT RASHID
he main function of our Consume whole grains such as
heart is to pump and send bread and oatmeal.
T oxygen to all parts of our
body.
Moreover,
one needs to
balance the
Drink s lot of plain
water, at least 8 glasses
per day.
cholesterol level,
blood pressure and Put vegetables in
exercise regularly every meal, at least 3
to have a healthy
heart.
to 5
Practicing a
healthy diet can
help to control cholesterol level
and blood pressure making the
servings. This will help
heart works effectively. When the with the digestion
heart works well, the body will system.
work well too.
SUGGESTION Take fruits as a healthy snack to
replace chips and other unhealthy
Keeping up with daily exercise tidbits.
routine.
We can create awareness among
Avoid taking processed food such family members, students and
as potato chips, fried chickens with community about the important to
excessive preserving powder and take care of our heart and
jellies that usually contain colouring avoiding fatal diseases which in
and high amount of sugar. this case is the heart failure.
SOURCE: Blue Care Network of Michigan (2011,August 12).Healthy Steps to a Healthy
Heart.Retrived from http://www.mibcn.com/about/corporate/newsletter/heathy-heart.pdf.